Michael Luongo
@michaelluongo.bsky.social
TEDx Speaker, Novelist, Journalist, Editor, Photographer, Professor/Instructor, Author 16 books: education, travel, culture, human rights & more. PhD student researching tourism & conflict. NYC & Indiana. www.michaelluongo.com
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They needed to find a hole puncher to create another big binder of blank pages. But DOGE stole the hole puncher. www.cnn.com/2020/10/26/p...
Analysis: How President Trump’s surprise gift to ‘60 Minutes’ completely backfired | CNN Politics
Shortly after President Donald Trump abruptly ended an interview with “60 Minutes” anchor Lesley Stahl, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany showed up with a massively large book in tow.
www.cnn.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
They needed to find a hole puncher to create another big binder of blank pages. But DOGE stole the hole puncher. www.cnn.com/2020/10/26/p...
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absolutely incredible -- CNN host introduces a segment about Trump's "new healthcare proposal," but less than two minutes later breaks into her script to announce "breaking news" that Trump's healthcare proposal is being postponed
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
absolutely incredible -- CNN host introduces a segment about Trump's "new healthcare proposal," but less than two minutes later breaks into her script to announce "breaking news" that Trump's healthcare proposal is being postponed
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It will be revealed in 2 weeks.
absolutely incredible -- CNN host introduces a segment about Trump's "new healthcare proposal," but less than two minutes later breaks into her script to announce "breaking news" that Trump's healthcare proposal is being postponed
November 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM
It will be revealed in 2 weeks.
really I don't know why anyone is enamored of AI
ICYMI last week, new talking point for AI safety advocates. (I laughed out loud, don't judge me.) www.cnn.com/2025/11/19/t...
Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives | CNN Business
Sales of an artificial intelligence-enabled plush toy have been suspended after it was found that it engaged in conversation around sexually explicit topics and offered potentially dangerous advice.
www.cnn.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:34 PM
really I don't know why anyone is enamored of AI
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A reminder this holiday season:
Your fat friends/family can hear the way you talk about food. Please don’t let your disordered eating be our problem.
Your fat friends/family can hear the way you talk about food. Please don’t let your disordered eating be our problem.
November 26, 2025 at 1:47 AM
A reminder this holiday season:
Your fat friends/family can hear the way you talk about food. Please don’t let your disordered eating be our problem.
Your fat friends/family can hear the way you talk about food. Please don’t let your disordered eating be our problem.
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Amid Confusing CDC Guidance About Vaccines, Study Highlights New Risk of COVID-19 During Pregnancy www.propublica.org/article/covi...
Amid Confusing CDC Guidance About Vaccines, Study Highlights New Risk of COVID-19 During Pregnancy
A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to sto...
www.propublica.org
November 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Amid Confusing CDC Guidance About Vaccines, Study Highlights New Risk of COVID-19 During Pregnancy www.propublica.org/article/covi...
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Do You Work at a Federal Prison? Help ProPublica Investigate the Federal Prison System www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...
Do You Work at a Federal Prison? Help ProPublica Investigate the Federal Prison System
If you work at a federal prison and know about wrongdoing, we want to hear from you.
www.propublica.org
November 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Do You Work at a Federal Prison? Help ProPublica Investigate the Federal Prison System www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...
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Just a few tickets left for tonight’s @queertheatreuk.bsky.social showcase.
It would be amazing if we sold out.
Tickets at link 👇
And don’t be late - I’m opening the show! 🫣
www.queertheatre.co.uk/whats-on/out...
It would be amazing if we sold out.
Tickets at link 👇
And don’t be late - I’m opening the show! 🫣
www.queertheatre.co.uk/whats-on/out...
November 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Just a few tickets left for tonight’s @queertheatreuk.bsky.social showcase.
It would be amazing if we sold out.
Tickets at link 👇
And don’t be late - I’m opening the show! 🫣
www.queertheatre.co.uk/whats-on/out...
It would be amazing if we sold out.
Tickets at link 👇
And don’t be late - I’m opening the show! 🫣
www.queertheatre.co.uk/whats-on/out...
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The Lawyer Who Killed Roe Is About to Get a Promotion newrepublic.com/article/2034...
The Lawyer Who Killed Roe Is About to Get a Promotion
Erin Hawley has devoted her career to rolling back the civil rights of vulnerable Americans. Now she is poised to become a circuit court judge.
newrepublic.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
The Lawyer Who Killed Roe Is About to Get a Promotion newrepublic.com/article/2034...
ever since I started watching the Australian comedy Utopia on YouTube, I started getting lots of Aussie content-one of the things is this reality show about Australian airports & customs, simply fascinating as someone who studies and writes on travel www.youtube.com/watch?v=bycm...
Family Caught Concealing More Than Just Food | FULL EPISODES | Border Security Australia
YouTube video by Border Security
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November 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
ever since I started watching the Australian comedy Utopia on YouTube, I started getting lots of Aussie content-one of the things is this reality show about Australian airports & customs, simply fascinating as someone who studies and writes on travel www.youtube.com/watch?v=bycm...
Yesterday, Nov 25 was International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women - date marks murder of Mirabal sisters by Dominican dictator Trujillo - memorialized in Salma Hayek film In the Time of the Butterflies www.un.org/en/observanc...
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women | United Nations
The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women aims to create awareness of the fact that violence against women is a human rights violation that impedes progress in many areas, in...
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November 26, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Yesterday, Nov 25 was International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women - date marks murder of Mirabal sisters by Dominican dictator Trujillo - memorialized in Salma Hayek film In the Time of the Butterflies www.un.org/en/observanc...
strange right wing narratives - this seems to be making the rounds - he was not jailed for defending himself and killing the attacker - he was jailed because he had 25 unregistered guns - would you want such a person as a neighbor? www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBZ3...
Senior Citizen Gets Four Years in Prison for Self Defense
YouTube video by Liberty Doll
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:13 PM
strange right wing narratives - this seems to be making the rounds - he was not jailed for defending himself and killing the attacker - he was jailed because he had 25 unregistered guns - would you want such a person as a neighbor? www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBZ3...
strange right wing narratives - this seems to be making the rounds - he was not jailed for defending himself and killing the attacker - he was jailed because he had 25 unregistered guns - would you want such a person as a neighbor? www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBZ3...
Senior Citizen Gets Four Years in Prison for Self Defense
YouTube video by Liberty Doll
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
strange right wing narratives - this seems to be making the rounds - he was not jailed for defending himself and killing the attacker - he was jailed because he had 25 unregistered guns - would you want such a person as a neighbor? www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBZ3...
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NYT: C.D.C. Quietly Appoints Doctor Critical of Vaccines as Second in Command
During the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr. Ralph Lee Abraham promoted discredited treatments like ivermectin and, as Louisiana’s surgeon general, halted the state’s mass vaccination campaign.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr. Ralph Lee Abraham promoted discredited treatments like ivermectin and, as Louisiana’s surgeon general, halted the state’s mass vaccination campaign.
November 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
NYT: C.D.C. Quietly Appoints Doctor Critical of Vaccines as Second in Command
During the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr. Ralph Lee Abraham promoted discredited treatments like ivermectin and, as Louisiana’s surgeon general, halted the state’s mass vaccination campaign.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr. Ralph Lee Abraham promoted discredited treatments like ivermectin and, as Louisiana’s surgeon general, halted the state’s mass vaccination campaign.
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My daughter and I visited the house we lived in when she was a baby, and she was shocked a 29-year-old Navy guy could afford a nice house in a safe neighborhood.
That wasn’t crazy in 1996 — but today, a nice house is out of reach for so many young people. That has to change.
That wasn’t crazy in 1996 — but today, a nice house is out of reach for so many young people. That has to change.
November 25, 2025 at 3:38 PM
My daughter and I visited the house we lived in when she was a baby, and she was shocked a 29-year-old Navy guy could afford a nice house in a safe neighborhood.
That wasn’t crazy in 1996 — but today, a nice house is out of reach for so many young people. That has to change.
That wasn’t crazy in 1996 — but today, a nice house is out of reach for so many young people. That has to change.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
tacky is as tacky does - some of them do seem to be diplomatic in their thoughts www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
We Asked Interior Designers To Explain Trump's 'Garish' White House Redesign — And They Had THOUGHTS
Experts weigh in on the president's gold-soaked makeover of the Oval Office and more.
www.huffpost.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
tacky is as tacky does - some of them do seem to be diplomatic in their thoughts www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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I swore an oath to the Constitution in 1986. I've upheld it through 25 years of service and every day since I retired.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
November 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I swore an oath to the Constitution in 1986. I've upheld it through 25 years of service and every day since I retired.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
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Getting the feeling he might have had to do some Nuzzi level stuff in the course of the interviews.
November 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Getting the feeling he might have had to do some Nuzzi level stuff in the course of the interviews.
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Impossible to take anyone seriously who would describe rfk jr like this. Chiseled angles? Careful diet?
November 25, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Impossible to take anyone seriously who would describe rfk jr like this. Chiseled angles? Careful diet?
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“The entire purpose of science is to search for existential truths,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told me. “It’s not subjective. It should be objective. I believe science is a place where you can find unity if you can get a conversation going.” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Why Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. So Convinced He’s Right?
How an outsider, once ignored by the public-health establishment, became the most powerful man in science
www.theatlantic.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
“The entire purpose of science is to search for existential truths,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told me. “It’s not subjective. It should be objective. I believe science is a place where you can find unity if you can get a conversation going.” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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Okay it's officially time for a Chotiner/RFK interview
“The entire purpose of science is to search for existential truths,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told me. “It’s not subjective. It should be objective. I believe science is a place where you can find unity if you can get a conversation going.” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Why Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. So Convinced He’s Right?
How an outsider, once ignored by the public-health establishment, became the most powerful man in science
www.theatlantic.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Okay it's officially time for a Chotiner/RFK interview
interesting and not for good reasons - really I do not understand why so many are enamored of Trump which is the root of the issue this article is about theintercept.com/2025/11/14/e...
Epstein Gave NY Times Journalist Tips About Trump. Why Did They Never Get Reported?
Exchanges about Trump between reporter Landon Thomas Jr. and Jeffrey Epstein raise questions about what the New York Times knew and when.
theintercept.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
interesting and not for good reasons - really I do not understand why so many are enamored of Trump which is the root of the issue this article is about theintercept.com/2025/11/14/e...
50 year mortgages are only good for the banks - you pay much much more in interest - it does not make houses cheaper, it makes them much much more expensive - do not think in any way shape or form that the administration cares about people www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/y...
Buying a House Is Expensive. But There Are Some Ways to Rein In Costs.
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
50 year mortgages are only good for the banks - you pay much much more in interest - it does not make houses cheaper, it makes them much much more expensive - do not think in any way shape or form that the administration cares about people www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/y...
